Sorokin S. Formation and usage of the potential of the productive forces of Ukraine's regions

The conceptual and categorial study apparatus has been deepened; the definitions of "productive forces" and "potential of the productive forces in the region" have been clarified; the properties and systemic features of potential of the productive forces in the region have been defined; the factors influencing the process of formation, reproduction, usage and development of the productive forces in the regions of Ukraine have been systematized and grouped; methods of estimating efficiency of potential of the productive forces in the region have been improved; the regional features of formation and use of potential of the productive forces of the region have been analyzed; by its structure the territorial disproportions in the allocation and development of the productive forces have been identified; the synchronicity of the regional economic processes has been estimated; the measures system for the rationalization of the potential of the productive forces of the region use has been improved; the methodology of management capacity of the productive forces in the region, that oriented on its effective use and development has been deepened; approaches to territorial forecasting of social and economic development through the effective use of potential of the productive forces of the region and proposed.